tractiveMini GPS Cat Tracker | Market Leader | Real-Time Location Tracking | Location History | Health Alerts | Activity Monitoring | Collar included | Works With Subscription (Mint)

Excellent product for keeping tabs on wandering cats. We have three of these now and started using them over a year ago when we got a couple of young cats, one of which likes to get in cars and vans. Battery life we have found to be pretty good, we charge ours every 4-5 days. However, battery life depends on how much your cat wanders out of the power saving zone which connects via WiFi. We have two younger cats who are wanderers, 2-4 miles a day, their tractives require charging far more often than the one on our older cat who doesn't go very far from home, and we charge his about once a week. We have found the app very useful for finding one of them when he decided to go 'feral' on us for a few days last summer and set up home in a hedgerow. App is also an eye opener as to how far some cats travel. We have found the radar, light and sound functions useful for the odd occasions when a cat comes home without their collar and tractive, you can normally get within a couple of feet of the tractive using radar and then turn on the sound and light to pinpoint it. You need to factor in buying the subscription as well, which is required, and ours works out at a £5 per month for each tractive. The units look fairly big when they arrive and you first put them on but the cats don't seem to notice them and it doesn't seem to inhibit their antics. Finally, the app has a heat map function so it shows you where your cat spends the most time, don't be too surprised if you discover you 'share' your cat with others, like they say 'you don't own a cat, it just lets you live in it's home'.

I’m so impressed. Got it after my cat didn’t come home for a few days. The real-time tracking is super accurate, the battery lasts for a good 2-3 days and recharges super fast, and it’s lightweight enough that my cat doesn’t mind wearing it. I can even see my cat’s ‘territory’ in the neighbourhood, which is probably where he was hanging out when he didn’t come home last time. A must-have for any cat who lives to explore.

Bought 2 of these , currently using 1, as far to small for 5 month old kitten,it does come with a subscription which costs£13 a month ,not 5,8,or other amount can't mind,if u decide to pay basic year in full it cost £5 a month,collar a bit bulky for my liking,cat doesn't mind it, so far ok ,I may even give other to my neighbour,see how it goes

We have a kitten who has literally just reached a year old. She was a rescue and didn't get spayed until January 2024, and she was then allowed out with an Apple Air Tag on a collar. £5 collar and a £25 Air Tag.Whilst this didn't allow real time tracking, on the very odd occasions she failed to return home we managed to find here or have her turn up whilst we were looking for her, and on the solitary occasion over the course of 6 months where she came home without the collar, we managed to find the collar within 30 minutes.In search of something that would provide real-time tracking and also educate us as to how far she goes, whether she goes anywhere dangerous etc. we bought this tracker.Issue number 1 and it's a big problem - you literally cannot use the tracker without a subscription which we knew, but we did assume that as the pricing for a subscription was shown as "per month" that it would be just that. Did we not read properly? Quite possibly, but ultimately it came down to having to pay for a whole year up front no matter what. So essentially over and above the cost of the initial tracker, you also have to folk out almost double again just to use it to see if it is actually any good.Assuming that the reviews were real and genuine, we took the plunge and bought the 2-year premium plan with loss coverage for £162. Didn't have too much choice really, as 1 year was considerably more expensive than 2 years divided by 2, and again we were naive enough to think it would be a good tracker.The collar included is probably the only good point about this tracker. The Rogz cat collar is excellent, and you can set how easily the collar will come apart, we put it on the lowest setting as the cat is quite small and we would sooner lose a tracker and collar than have a dead cat!Massive problem 2 is the two different attachments for the collar to hold the tracker are absolutely rubbish. One is a black plastic clip and the other a dark blue thin rubber/latex holder. We tried the clip first, and the tracker never really felt as secure as it should be.Setting up the app was relatively straight forward although in use it isn't the most intuitive and a little clumsy at times, but it does its job.The tracker for me is huge (especially compared to an Air Tag) and hangs under the cat’s neck. The cat didn't seem overly put off though and away she went.Problem 3 - the battery barely lasts 2 days without doing any live tracking and if you are brave enough to not charge it after 2 days, on the third day if your cat loses her collar or the tracker, it's a battle against the battery running out to find it. All this despite it having power saving features like using wi-fi only when she is in the house.The battery life is literally garbage. It does charge in under 30 minutes, but you literally have to charge it every other day without fail otherwise by the end of day three it is likely to be lost if the cat doesn't bring it home (or come home).Problem 4 - So in week 1 the tracker and collar got pulled off the cat in a thorn bush. At the time I guessed just one of those things, but it has become so regular it must relate to the size of the tracker. Cat came home without collar, we waited until next morning to retrieve it with 50 percent battery remaining due to it having been charged overnight.When we got to the area where live tracking said it was, we switched on audio. Couldn't hear a thing, switched on the light, couldn't see a thing. When we found it using the bluetooth finder in the app, it was maybe 5 feet from us on the floor. The sound is barely audible and on this and every occasion the tracker has gone missing, the light is facing the floor so completely useless.Since the first loss, we have had another couple of losses of the collar and tracker and then a couple of weeks ago we managed to find the collar, but no sign of the black plastic clip. At this point I read online reviews only to realise that the clip is clearly not fit for purpose. There is no way it should be breaking just under the strength of our cat.Rather than order a replacement, we tried to use the rubber/latex holder instead on the same collar. The problem with this is that this caused the tracker to dangle quite low around the cat's neck and on several occasions, it has come back along with the cat covered in mud or marks suggesting it is scraping the floor when she crawls under fences/bushes etc.Speed up to last night, cat comes home with a collar and the rubber holder, but no tracker due to a rip in the holder. For the second time ever (first time was a freshly charged battery earlier in the week and the cat left the wi-fi zone of the house to go out and about) when I looked for the location of the tracker on the app, there was no GPS signal (despite it having network signal) so only an approximate location for the tracker in a nearby field nearly 5 hours ago.I have been to look for it today and the tracker wasn't in the area of the last location and hasn't been found. There is no location that I am aware of where the cat has ever been with the tracker that doesn't have GPS signal, and exactly where the tracker was last seen has great GPS signal on a phone. So, I am guessing that at the same time as the holder getting ripped, the device has suffered damage or has eventually come out of the holder somewhere very out of the way. The last location updates about every 2 to 3 minutes so the cat couldn't have gotten far with it - but far enough for us to have zero chance of finding it.That's OK I hear you say, you have the premium plan with loss coverage you can get another one. Yes, you would think so, but then you can only claim for loss twice in the 2 year period as far as I know, and had it not been for our dogged perseverance wading through bushes and all sorts and getting cut to bits, we would have lost 5 by now.Had we not spent a fortune on an annual monitoring plan, the tracker would have already been in the bin after the second loss. But here we are less than 3 months since its purchase and it has been lost 6 times at least now, and on each occasion, we have had to be adventurous to rescue it. On 2 occasions in that time this has been due to the failure of the holder's materials.So to summarise: Battery life is dire, sound is so low volume it's pointless (and it’s an annoying tune instead of a good beep like Air Tag), the light on every occasions has been hidden as the tracker always lands light side down (due to its design), the holders are literally not fit for purpose, the GPS seems unreliable and you are tied in to a year as a minimum but could easily find yourself needing a 3rd replacement within weeks due to the holders being rubbish, GPS failing or the collar and tag clearly being very susceptible to getting snagged in a bush and not retrievable due to the size of the thing.Incidentally a friend who has two of these for two cats (who we didn't speak to before buying), literally uses gaffa tape every time she charges the batteries and puts the tracker back on the collar due to the number of times their trackers have gone missing due to broken holders.Based on the negative Amazon reviews, the manufacturers must know of all of these problems.My suggestions to fix it all?1. Give a free trial for the actual tracking after initial purchase. If you are too tight to do this at least allow a month’s paid trial.2. Remove the light completely or put it on a surface where it can be seen.3. Sort the volume out - we can hear an Airtag from 10-15 feet easily, why does this thing play a rubbish tune instead of using something more penetrating of a noise, and why is it so quiet?4. Use a better battery AND allow in settings for the location updates to take place up to an hour apart (3 minutes average it seems at the moment which I could definitely live without), and all the lifestyle monitoring stuff be able to be disabled so the tracker isn't so active.5. Sort out the holders, they are absolute garbage and not fit for anything. Literally some rubber rings that reinforce the holders would be a start.6. Change the number of claims for a lost tracker one can make.In the meantime, despite the waste of the subscription, we are going back to relying on an Air Tag with the Rogz collar.TRACTIVE IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE unless you live somewhere where your cat really cannot adventure much beyond a garden and tarmac with close to zero risk of your cat ever catching its neck area on anything.